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Old 01-15-2011, 10:00 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
Ray, do your eBooks have DRM?
No, I dislike DRM, Big Time.

If someone really wants to steal your title, it's not that difficult anyway.

I recall one time I was speaking to a group of authors (years ago, when eBooks just started to show up), and one of the authors said, "Yes, but someone can easily steal my title if it's in eBook format, and send it to someone else."

I asked the lady, "Have you bought a paperback lately?"

"Yes, I have," she said.

"When you finished reading it, did you give to anyone else?"

She got a very sheepish look on her face, then said, "Yes, to my mother."

"And when she finished it?"

"She gave it to a friend of hers," the woman said.

"You then, effectively cheated the author of that book out of several sales," I said.

Everyone looked around and nodded. Clearly they had never thought of their "lending" practices that way.

There's no protection from that. And let's face it, we've all done it.

DRM just gets in the way, I think.

- Ray
The Fiction Works
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